Drees vs Dreep - What's the difference?
drees | dreep |
(dree)
To suffer; bear; thole; endure; put up with; undergo.
* 1885 , Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , volume 8:
To endure; brook; be able to do or continue.
(now, chiefly, dialectal) Long; large; ample; great.
(now, chiefly, dialectal) Great; of serious moment.
(now, chiefly, dialectal) Tedious; wearisome; tiresome.
(Scotland) To lower oneself from a height and drop the remaining distance.
*2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 77:
*:If ye could not do the next jump ye just dreeped down and ran along the ground and up the next one.
As verbs the difference between drees and dreep
is that drees is third-person singular of dree while dreep is to lower oneself from a height and drop the remaining distance.drees
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(head)Anagrams
* * * * ----dree
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) dreen, dreghen, dreogen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).Verb
(d)- And redoubled pine for its dwellers I dree .